Originally Posted by
ABetterDetroit
With all due respect Gistok, the above is a Michigan Excuse if there ever was one.
Did Phoenix have the trades in the nineties at the same time that Atlanta, Florida, the Silicon Valley and the entire east coast was exploding? If the work is here and the money is good they will come from somewhere else just like they do in other places. God knows we have been the supplier of skilled trades to the rest of the country for a long time. Just because an economic boom has not happened in Detroit since WWII, that is not a good enough reason to believe it is not possible here again.
If the right conditions are created the growth will happen in our area just like other places in this country. We just have to compete and make changes of old archaic ways and level the field so Michigan gets in the game instead of sitting on the sidelines playing the poor victim state in the rust belt hit the hardest.